Minor Confession Thread

Daylan C said:

In reply to Mndsm :

My E36 M3ty Mustang was the best fun beater I had. I want another but can't decide if I want another crusty beater Mustang or spend more money on a nicer one. Maybe even hold out for an 05-09 GT. (3 valve sucks but I'm ok with the power and like the body style a lot).

But lots of other E36 M3 to take care of first.

Challenge budget. There were a couple cool sn95s in the CAM class that I was pretty into. 

Combine the wagon and the E36 M3ty mustang.

Also on the muffler part earlier, I'm glad flowmaster 40s on mustangs stopped being so much of a thing because I grew up on a hill and holy hell was that pretty much all you heard.

My truck had no muffler for about a week and while it was amusing for a bit I very much like the result of the 30" cherry bomb glasspack on it. A bit louder, a bit more burbley but not obnoxious.

The confession will be that the dakota will lose its muffler the second it comes out here to stay and the 18" glasspack from my previous ram will go on it. It will sound awful.

Flowmasters on Mustangs was the soundtrack of my high school years and I will never not like that sound.  The rest of you are hopelessly wrong.

In reply to Mndsm :

Yes. Challenge budget SN95 is always a good plan. 

Daylan C said:

In reply to Mndsm :

My E36 M3ty Mustang was the best fun beater I had. I want another but can't decide if I want another crusty beater Mustang or spend more money on a nicer one. Maybe even hold out for an 05-09 GT. (3 valve sucks but I'm ok with the power and like the body style a lot).

But lots of other E36 M3 to take care of first.

i like the 2010 body style. should be cheaper than the 2011s due to not having the coyote. then i would supercharge it like every other mustang.

In reply to slowbird :

I prefer the 05-09 cars. The 3 valve is the compromise for me. If I get the uglier 2010+ car it better be a 2011+ car with the Coyote.

In a perfect world my 05-09 car would have an LS3 and a t56.

Edit: ok a GT500 would be nice too

It's great to give away a Challenge car because then you can email the "buyer" with a list of hidden berk ups and not feel guilty cause hey it's free. 

Mndsm said:

Only the freest and most American of the jeeps- the liberty.   

At least they're plentiful in the self service junkyards?

They do pretty well off-road, too, despite the hate for them.

Brett_Murphy said:

Mndsm said:

Only the freest and most American of the jeeps- the liberty.   

At least they're plentiful in the self service junkyards?

They do pretty well off-road, too, despite the hate for them.

I doubt this one is 4wd. I just today figured out it was an automatic. I really REALLY didn't think this one through. 

Wally said:

Flowmasters on Mustangs was the soundtrack of my high school years and I will never not like that sound.  The rest of you are hopelessly wrong.

I'm baffled by high school being a positive association.

In exchange for putting up with my observation, I'll confess that I'm starting to waste brain cycles on thinking about updating my avatar and/or signature.

Also, I apparently failed to notice I'd gone UltimaDork about 200 posts ago...

According to most of you guys, my daughters Neon with a big hole in the muffler must sound pretty darn good.

I drive a 2.3 ranger that's entire exhaust is about 4 foot long with a burnt out glasspack. It's obnoxious and it amuses me. I just spent an hour this afternoon drifting it around in the snow at 3-5k rpm. 

Yes, it would. But remember, I'm deaf, so what I hear isn't what you hear.

Cars that are too quiet start to worry me. Like, how can I hear if the engine is blowing up if I can't hear the engine? Plus I just like zoomy noises.

dropstep said:

I drive a 2.3 ranger that's entire exhaust is about 4 foot long with a burnt out glasspack. It's obnoxious and it amuses me. I just spent an hour this afternoon drifting it around in the snow at 3-5k rpm. 

I laughed at that. I'd give you two thumbs up if the forum would let me. 

My E30 ETA has a rusty glasspack of some sort on it.

It's stupid and it's loud and doesn't go with this car at all.

But damn does it make me laugh.

My confession: I had to run an errand for work. While I was out, I stopped at Aldi and dropped $20 on snacks. I'm sitting at my desk eating chocolate covered almonds like I'm 8 years old.

My entire office is currently being run of an extension cord. That is also powering the tools to rennovate the electrical system. 

Its way sketchier than it sounds. 

The biggest complaint is no stereo.....

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

Overloaded extension cords start a lot of fires.

In reply to Woody :

I got the wall outlets safe enough to trip tge breaker back on tonight. 

This whole "teach yourself electrical whipe working overtime and being a dad" thing is not that fun....

And the whole office consists of a printer, laptop, desktop light, two phone chargers, and a fan.

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

That sounds like overloaded. Don't run everything at the same time. And for god's sake, make sure that the cord isn't running under a carpet or couch.

Ransom said:

Wally said:

Flowmasters on Mustangs was the soundtrack of my high school years and I will never not like that sound.  The rest of you are hopelessly wrong.

I'm baffled by high school being a positive association.

In exchange for putting up with my observation, I'll confess that I'm starting to waste brain cycles on thinking about updating my avatar and/or signature.

High school itself mostly sucked, but I spent very little of my time there. Most of it was spent running around with my idiot friends. The burbling of V8s through Flowmasters was often the soundtrack that accompanied us.

Woody said:

In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :

Overloaded extension cords start a lot of fires.

I was testing a light before hanging it.  My wife was freaked out when she saw it.  
 

In the late 1970's I worked for a builder that would run wires from one house to the other to run the furnace or sump pump.  He never used extension cords since they were easily stolen.  I saw a lot of wires pushed into outlets.   Many times I tripped over the wires.
 

Just watched a youtube video on a '76 308 GT4. So of course I immediately looked up the Fubaru thread. It's still right where we left it last year.